laurabrantreads's review
4.0
The concept of adoption has been around almost as long as man so let's all continue to learn about it.
Scott Simon does just that in this thoughtful collection of essays on adoption. I am PRO adoption because my life has been directly altered by adoption on four occasions. If you are considering adoption, want to be supportive of someone adopting, or just want to better understand the power of adoption this is a great read.
Scott Simon does just that in this thoughtful collection of essays on adoption. I am PRO adoption because my life has been directly altered by adoption on four occasions. If you are considering adoption, want to be supportive of someone adopting, or just want to better understand the power of adoption this is a great read.
library_hungry's review
3.0
I waffle on this. It's got charm, but it does gloss over a lot of the conversation about the complexities of adoption. More than gloss over, really--argue against, minimize. I don't think that his joyful stories of happy adoptive families are wrong or false in any way, but he seems to deny that the complexities of adoption have any significance to adopted kids.
I don't want to invalidate his joy, or the beauty of adoption that he describes. But it's not about the focus on the good, but the dismissal of the gray areas that drops my stars down.
I don't want to invalidate his joy, or the beauty of adoption that he describes. But it's not about the focus on the good, but the dismissal of the gray areas that drops my stars down.
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